Category Archives: Leadership and Management

Leadership and management is a career pathway that is responsible for managing business relationships at every level and achieving company objectives.

6 Tips for Effective Communication With Employees

One of the most under-appreciated aspects of running a successful business is communication. For your business to be successful, you need strong and effective communication with your employees. When your employees understand your goals and feel like their...


Do you need a better digital workplace culture?

  The agility of mobile devices and access to the internet has contributed to a new work culture in Australia. Technology has liberated us from needing to be at our desks to work, yet with it comes challenges...


How Do You Measure Your Team’s Potential?

Measuring team potential and performance helps you lead your team more effectively, assess training needs, and provide feedback to employees....


How to Keep Your Employee’s Motivation Levels High

When it comes to understanding how to keep your employee’s motivation levels high, many leaders mistakenly think that money is the prime way to drive their employees to succeed. However, it has become apparent that this is not...


Do You Have What It Takes To Lead a Team?

If you're wondering how to lead a team effectively or if you have what it takes to be a leader, you've come to the right place....


7 Tips to Increase Your Team’s Productivity

Managing a team of employees is not easy. On the one hand, you want to retain consistent motivational levels, however, you still need to work towards those organisational goals. Sometimes, no matter how hard we work, or how...


7 Ways to Reduce Staff Turnover

The greatest asset to a business is its employees, which is why so many organisations pay close attention to ensuring their staff stay positive and motivated. When employees are happy at an organisation, productivity and morale are significantly...


How To Avoid Your Best Employees Quitting

If you want to avoid your best employees quitting, you need to think carefully about how you treat them and how you incentivise them to stay. ...


How to Increase Your Employee Commitment and Loyalty

One of the biggest challenges managers face is how to maintain a happy and engaged workforce. One of the most fascinating and sometimes frustrating aspects of business is its ability to constantly evolve in line with shifts in...


The Advantages of Workplace Flexibility

Workplace flexibility allows employers and employees to make working arrangements that suit them and advocate for greater work-life balance....


7 Ways to Retain Great Employees

Recruiting great employees and the ability to retain great employees matters. Employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of your business. Managers are aware that retaining their best employees ensures customer satisfaction, product sales...


4 Tips for Keeping Gen Ys from Job Hopping

Generation Y. They’re here to stay, or are they? An even more important question many want an answer to is, how are we keeping Gen Ys from job hopping? As we see more and more Gen Ys joining...


What is Emotional Intelligence and why is it important?

Emotional Intelligence (or EQ as it is commonly known) has risen to prominence in recent years as an influential factor in determining the success of managers and leaders in the workplace. The idea that success can be solely predicted...


Time to Review Recruiting and Induction Costs

Already we are into February and the new recruits will have started to arrive to take up their new positions. It’s a good time to reflect on the hire and induction costs. A starting point is to divide...


Avoid These Mistakes When Completing Risk Assessment

Risk assessment, in its simplest form means to think in advance about potential events, their effects and consequences that may follow, and take the necessary measures to avoid or minimise unwanted effects. Risk assessment is necessary in every...


How to Implement Core Values in your Workplace

Whatever the size of your business, there’s one thing you need to look after to sustain the smooth running of your usual processes and systems, and that’s your workforce. Implementing a strategy to enable workers to feel safe,...


Seagull Managers

Seagull managers fly in, hover about, drop their load, pinch your chips, squawk, and then fly off again, leaving you to clean up after them....


How to Respond to a Job Application

Going through job applications is the first step in your company’s efforts to find people to help steer the organisation towards success. Unfortunately, this process can be a difficult task, especially for companies who anticipate having a large...


The Effects of Poor Management on Productivity

Is there pressure in your organisation to do more with less? Is increasing productivity a driver or becoming an issue for your organisation? What about profits? Is there an increased focus on the bottom line? If you’ve answered...


4 Ways to Give Constructive Feedback

Giving negative feedback to your employees can be a very daunting task for managers. However, as difficult as it is- being able to do so effectively can result in improved interpersonal relationships and a far more productive work...


Global Talent Shortages and the Evolving Role of the HRM Professional

  Businesses around the world are currently experiencing a profound market shift, one that will impact both the supply and demand for skilled talent over the next decade according to the research study, Global Talent 2021. Oxford Economics...